Tom Lane writes:
> If you think depending on POSIX utilities is OK, then use cut.
> I'd recommend sed, though.
This has gotten pretty silly:
TAB=' ' # tab here
$PSQL -d template1 -At -F "$TAB" \ -c "SELECT datname, usename, pg_encoding_to_char(d.encoding),
datistemplate, datpath, 'x' FROM pg_database d LEFT JOIN pg_shadow u ON
(datdba = usesysid) WHERE datallowconn;" | \
while read RECORDS; do DATABASE=`echo "x$RECORDS" | sed "s/^x\([^$TAB]*\).*/\1/"` DBOWNER=`echo "x$RECORDS" | sed
"s/^x[^$TAB]*$TAB\([^$TAB]*\).*/\1/"` ENCODING=`echo "x$RECORDS" | sed
"s/^x[^$TAB]*$TAB[^$TAB]*$TAB\([^$TAB]*\).*/\1/"` ISTEMPLATE=`echo "x$RECORDS" | sed
"s/^x[^$TAB]*$TAB[^$TAB]*$TAB[^$TAB]*$TAB\([^$TAB]*\).*/\1/"` DBPATH=`echo "x$RECORDS" | sed
"s/^x[^$TAB]*$TAB[^$TAB]*$TAB[^$TAB]*$TAB[^$TAB]*$TAB\([^$TAB]*\).*/\1/"`
I'm not sure whether this is actually an overall improvement. I'm tempted
to just coalesce(usename, {some default user}) instead.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/
